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Bite-size Books: A Psalm For The Wild-Built

Book cover: A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky ChambersGenerations past, the robots of Panga achieved sentience and were unhappy with their lot. When humanity gave them their freedom, they disappeared into the wilderness. Now, they are ready to make contact again – and a restless young tea monk will be asked the biggest question: what makes humanity happy? 

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February 3, 2022 Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

How High We Go In The Dark

Book cover: How High We Go In The Dark - Sequoia NagamatsuAs the Siberian tundra melts, a deadly virus is released from the ice and devastates the world. How High We Go In The Dark is a series of personal stories from a parallel now exploring themes of connection, grief and hope as humanity grapples with a rapidly-changing context.

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January 15, 2022 Reviews

Throwback Thursday: Zone One

Book cover: Zone One - Colson Whitehead (illustration of an eye in close-up, iris and pupil shaded red)

Mark Spitz was the very definition of average, carried along unresisting by the currents of middle class life… until the dead started walking.

Now he’s a traumatised loner – sorry, seasoned survivor – sweeping up the remnants of the apocalypse so that the living can return to Manhattan.

Welcome to Zone One.

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October 29, 2020 Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Bite-size Books: Ormeshadow

Book cover: Ormeshadow - Prita SharmaThe Belmans have farmed in Ormeshadow for generations. Returning home after a failed attempt to build a life elsewhere, John Belman binds his son Gideon to the land with ancient legends – and enduring hope.

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January 11, 2020 Bite-size Books, Novellas

Confessions of a bad SF Fan: Childhood’s End

Book cover: Childhood's End - Arthur C ClarkeTime for one of my intermittent efforts to catch up on the greats of science fiction. For SciFiMonth (ahem, and the Hive prompt for Dancing with Fantasy and SciFi) I chose Arthur C Clarke’s first novel – one of his earliest and apparently one of his best.

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November 14, 2019 Confessions of a Bad SF Fan, Reviews

The City in the Middle of the Night

Book cover: The City in the Middle of the Night - Charlie Jane Anders (embossed title on a monochrome background, with 4-pointed stars)A tide-locked world of endless day and night. A young woman banished into the freezing dark to die. A slim chance to forge an unlikely alliance. As the planet of January slides into a climate apocalypse, is it possible to turn away from the past and embrace a new future?

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February 23, 2019 Reviews

Bite-sized Books: Buffalo Soldier

Book cover: Buffalo Soldier - Maurice BroaddusDesmond Coke fled Jamaica with his former comrades hot on his heels. He must cross an alternate America, where the Free Republic of Tejas, the Albion Empire and the Five Civilized Tribes may all offer sanctuary – or may seek to take advantage of the rare opportunity Desmond’s young ward Lij represents…

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April 20, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

Bite-sized Books: Binti – The Night Masquerade

Book cover: Binti The Night Masquerade - Nnedi Okorafor (a black woman with blue tentacle hair looks at an object in her hands)As Binti struggles to adjust to the zinariya, she is overwhelmed by visions of her family in mortal danger. With no sign of Okwu, she and Mwinyi rush back. Can the master harmonizer who sits at the nexus of so many cultures bring peace, or is her legacy to be only conflict?

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March 23, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews
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